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Simulating logic circuits, cheap router hardware, Snap and Flatpak download metrics, frying hard drives with too many volts, gathering and mapping button presses from random USB devices, protecting your system from rogue USB devices, and making chiptune music with emulated versions of classic gaming hardware.
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Something has gone wrong with the timeline and all software is free and open source. What does that world look like? Plus more on biometrics and desktop scaling.
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Google and Apple do a bad job of disclosing a pretty serious vulnerability, why hard drives aren’t physically bigger, and setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.
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News
Submit your ideas or articles – OpenSource.net
Incomplete disclosures by Apple and Google create “huge blindspot” for 0-day hunters
Google quietly corrects previously submitted disclosure for critical webp 0-day
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We were asked about setting up a distributed backup system with a group of friends.
Kolide
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The Wayland future is finally in sight, the UK government disappoints yet again, future LTS kernels won’t get 6 years of support, Unity drives people to Godot, Valve is a good open source citizen, an easy way to pay people to work on small KDE features and fixes, and more.
With guest host popey from Linux Matters.
News
Fedora 40 Eyes Dropping GNOME X11 Session Support
Today The UK Parliament Undermined The Privacy, Security, And Freedom Of All Internet Users
Linux gives up on 6-year LTS kernels, says they’re too much work
Jonathan Corbet surprised by the coverage
The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source “Nouveau” Linux Kernel Driver Resigns
A new maintainer will take over
Unity makes major changes to controversial install-fee program
Terraria dev Re-Logic donates $100K to Godot Engine and FNA, plus ongoing funding
Robot Gentleman dev of 60 Seconds! blasts Unity, switches to Godot and increases funding
Unity’s oldest community announces dissolution
Valve Is A Wonderful Upstream Contributor To Linux & The Open-Source Community
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How to get hired for your first development job, more on contributor license agreements, and our thoughts on different immutable OS approaches.
Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) – FSFE
Why the FSF Gets Copyright Assignments from Contributors
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The future of archive storage using lasers and ceramics, self-hosting an Internet archive, more on Windows 11 Home, and setting up storage inside VMs.
Plugs
Jim and Allan host Klara’s latest Webinar: OpenZFS Data Replication
News/discussion
Cerabyte roadmaps ceramic nano-memory storage
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Sorting Python imports, searching open tabs and history etc in Firefox, configuring proprietary headsets on the command line, Fedora on an M1 Mac, digital archaeology, Slackware on easy mode, Félim fails at Linux, and loads more.
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Another Abort Retry Fail
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What hardware we recommend for desktop Linux users in 2023. Is it really as simple as buying a 5 year old ThinkPad?
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Unity causes a stink with its new pricing model, running out of disk space causes a very expensive problem, how one-off promotional domains can come back to bite you, and picking the hardware and software for a router.
News
Unity has changed its pricing model, and game developers are pissed off
Unity rushes to clarify price increase plan, as game developers fume
unity_to_godot_converter: An experimental converter from Unity to Godot game engines
Toyota outage caused by servers running out of storage
Lidl recalls Paw Patrol snacks after website on packaging displayed porn
Free Consulting
We were asked about picking the hardware and software for a router.
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Kolide
Kolide ensures that if a device isn’t secure, it can’t access your apps. It’s Device Trust for Okta. Watch the demo today to see how it works at kolide.com/25a